The Lexington artist, who usually works as a metalsmith, has used an ancient technique from her native Japan known as "tsunami zaiku,'' traditionally used to create ornaments worn on kimonos, to craft gorgeous decorative jewelry of remarkable variety.

Kusumoto is just one of seven featured artists exhibiting a fabulous variety of decorative and fine art jewelry in Mobilia Gallery that can be worn, displayed or just marveled over.

Raised in a 400-year-old Buddhist temple, Kusumoto uses simple materials like silk, thread and polyester to fashion wearable jewelry that combines classical techniques and a modern aesthetic.

"We just choose to show things we love,'' said Libby Cooper who co-owns the Cambridge gallery with her sister Jo-Ann.

Visitors are likely to agree the Huron Avenue gallery continues to bring together an international selection of artisans who fashion wildly imaginative jewelry made from the most improbable materials.

In "Birds from A - Z,'' Shane Fero, of North Carolina, uses many kinds of colored glass – shards, cane or stained – to make glass birds, both realistic and fanciful, that you might see nesting in the dunes on Cape Cod or soaring through a child's imagination.

In his realistic pieces, he is as anatomically precise as James Audubon, creating his specimens' bodies by forcing air into a clear glass tube. Fusing art and ornithology, Fero's wrens, plovers and sandpipers have the brittle legs, bright eyes and pointy beaks of their real life counterparts.

Yet his imaginary birds look just as real but with plumage of vivid swirls and subtle patterns, added by Fero using an overlay technique. At first glance, Fero's glass birds, real or imagined, look so life-like visitors might expect them to sing.

After viewing Arline Fisch's genre-defying "Hanging Garden'' of wire sculptures that suggest jellyfish floating around multi-colored coral, you'll better understand what was so special about similar gardens in ancient Babylon.

A legendary artisan, she has won four Fulbright awards and, in 1985, was designated a "living treasure'' of California for her innovative creativity.

Like real jellyfish, her decorative creations seem to be billowing with undersea life, sometimes rising like frilly umbrellas or hovering like translucent underwater lampshades.

While displaying time-consuming craftsmanship, Fisch's works here seem as airy and weightless as the creatures in the animated Disney film "Nemo'' and while not, strictly speaking, wearable jewelry, they embody a master jewelry-maker's genius.

Tom Eckert uses wood he has carved and painted to fashion genre-defying sculptures that resemble cloth, folded or draped over books, shoes and stones that straddle the boundary between reality and illusion.

In "Illusions,'' the Arizona artist sculpts basswood, which he paints with waterborne lacquer, to resemble hanging cloth, speckled eggs, rocks and spiked heels.

Page 2 of 2 - Fascinated by optical illusions since childhood, Eckert now crafts his own visual magic by sculpting wood into sinuous, organic and tactile objects.

Describing her work, Kwon said, "Essential to my conception is creating a structure with a sense of volume and lightness that invokes a feeling of infinite space.''

Graduates of Edinburgh College of Art in England, Kaz Robertson and Donna Barry uses widely varying materials to make wearable jewelry in their distinct styles.

Mostly working with resin, Robertson fashions whimsical works like her "Yellow Bubble Necklace'' and "Square Bitties Earrings'' by combing a bold color palette with exciting patterns.

"Interaction and versatility are two of the most important aspects of my work,'' she said. "I like the wearer to be able to play with my jewelry, creating new pieces.''

At Edinburgh, Barry created her own techniques in which she combined silver textured sheets inspired by natural and architectural forms which she shaped into finished pieces that resemble flora and fauna.

While most artist's works are displayed in individual groupings, Libby Cooper said, "I love the way everything seems to hang together.''

"There's so much inventiveness on display in so many different styles,'' she said, "it's impossible not to be excited by the pure joy of their creativity.''